The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUA country is known by the way it treats its animals.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit.
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A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
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For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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I do not attach much importance to America’s bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.
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Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.
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Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.
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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
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Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
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Play the hand you’re dealt.
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